"The objective of teaching is to be like your teacher; that's why the only teacher God endorses is Jesus; by whom God already became just like US!"-My Twitter
Unlike any other teacher, God is the teacher of Grace and Truth. Every other teacher can only teach the Law, giving instructions for one to act upon in order to be deemed worthy of the standing of the giver of the law. However, instead of teaching us HOW to become worthy of His standing, He unveils us as having already been NAMED worthy of His standing. He displays every man, not as a standing to attain for themselves but one to recognize their need for, hunger for, and be given by Him the gift that comes from His going to the Father to make "a place" for us that we would "be with him" where He is. He didn't define His location geographically but according to His position in His Father, that is why He said He would make a place for us so that we would be with Him where He is. He didn't intend to make a place for us to physically be taken away from where we are now in order to inhabit, for He has said, "I do not pray that you remove them from this world, only that you keep them from hardship, labor, and all manner of evil." By purifying our image of Him, revealing Himself as light in whom dwells no darkness at all, our hearts change in response to what's been revealed concerning Him, radiating the truth He unveiled in us. From that place, our conversation shifts from the associated heart-shift and our language is made pure of any reference to the fall, accusation, the devil, or anything of that wavelength but rather, our language reflects what God so graciously revealed in our hearts which is the sufficiency of His grace, the sanctity of His rest, the perfection of His design, the power of His resurrection and the inclusion of all mankind everywhere and everything in all creation, both Heaven and Earth, in the definition provided by the unveiling of His Name as the Author and sustainer of all. We go from exhibiting the name of a fallen being trapped in unbelief of the God who plainly reveals Himself in all creation, by believing less than what He reveals of Himself about the things that He's made, which sprang forth from being cheated into believing less than what He reveals about Himself concerning the most important thing He's ever made, Jesus' Body, which is you. There's no flaw we see anywhere out there that doesn't confirm the presence of an accusation in us against God for allowing or creating this particularly "offensive" thing. We ourselves were once heirs of that same wrath, by having been subjugated as "children" of Satan, we were accused of falling short of God's standards and expectations and shamed as being "offensive" to Him. We then learned to associate any and all falling short of God's perfect standards as being "offensive" and before long, associated anything that fell short of our own illusory notions of adequate standards as "offensive" as well, from other's fashions to dietary decisions to body odor, skin tones, textures, and every manner of changeable (choosable) human (earthy) things subject to change and devoid of any eternal weight by which to accredit it the standing of a "standard" at all. So by judging on the outward appearances, dealing with changeable things and going by face value, the judgement is no longer TRUE because TRUTH dwells on a level higher than the Earth and is neither subject to change nor to human approval or interpretation. The truth about you never is never challenged by the claims of our falling short of the standards or expectations rightly attached to being what it is we are, Sons of God as revealed by Jesus Christ. Like the child who flunks college due to the weight of how important passing would be to her experience of herself in the eyes of her masters, she wrongly misconstrues herself as a failure when in reality, the method she attempted to succeed by was inferior, not she herself. Cain's sacrifice was inferior to Abel's, but that didn't make Cain inferior to Abel in the eyes of God. Like Moana trying to leave the island on the boat given by her father, leaving only went poorly because there was a specific boat always destined to be used for the task and that truth never changed. When she found the right boat, she was able to experience the ocean as it truly was. In the same way, Wang Lo may have been fed the deluded hope of one day being the Chosen One but in reality, of no fault of his own, he was trained wrongly on purpose, as a joke, and he think's that losing is actually winning! In much the same way, we all who were promised a way of success or defining ourselves or being counted worthy of blessings, privileges, favors, or approval as a result of our own doing of the law is a bad joke! The Law is not a system of winning, but of losing! The law is to punish infractions of it, it's a failure management system in which failure is guaranteed. In the absence of failure, there's no use for a law because the law would no longer be referred to as a standard measure but that perfect design which doesn't fail to reflect the law in the slightest now becomes the most accurate standard and new expression of the law. The law of the word of God was made flesh in Jesus. It's inaccurate and dishonest to measure ourselves against the words of the law of God now because from that place, there's distortion from our own failure to see. But that law was made flesh and anointed by the Spirit who created it, and now Jesus Himself is the law. Since He was judged guilty and crucified, the death was to the law, and when He died, the law He represented died. His resurrection revealed Him (and us) alive apart from the law. He referenced the innocence we had before Him, which accounted for His every blessing of us from Adam to Moses, sustained by His own love-backed will expressed to us in a promise. The promise still stands tall as the sole and exclusive means by which any man has ever received anything of God. Jesus' life itself came in response to God's fulfillment of His promise to resurrect Him on the 3rd day! (Hosea 6:2) God satisfies His promise and it's the only reason why He does anything, and His invention of us was in response to His promise to invent us, which was in response to His desire to invent us, which was in response to His knowledge of us and His liking what He saw, liking it enough to sell everything else He owned just so that He could buy it! He didn't casually pick us up while parousing bargain bins but painstakingly as He deep-sea dove into the depths of His own mind and heart to unveil, claim, and name us His own! We're the pearl in the oyster, the treasure in the field, and we don't get to earn (or lose) our standing before Him because our standing before Him was evidenced (and our official value publicly declared) by the value of what He gave in order to redeem us. He counted us worthy of the highest price, the price of a perfect life (perfect as revealed by the Law of God that only He Himself satisfied) and He gave up the satisfier of that law (and thereby the law itself) just to regain us in the capacity He always intended to have us in... "blameless and innocent" that Name never changes about us, that we are "blameless and innocent before Him in love" as articulated in Ephesians. We can't lose that standing and no one has it from earning it and any who says they have it without referencing His giving of it to all mankind freely in Christ LIES though what He say be true! Jesus gave us everything that God could ever give us all by taking upon Himself the name "Son of Man" whilest being the Son of God. Man dies once and is judged; Jesus deleted "man" and made it an obsolete expression of who we truly are, who Jesus TRULY is and what the Son of Man only ever existed to point to and reveal us as... "Sons of God." We are Sons of God. Son of Man MEANS Son of God. Christian is our ethnicity not our nationality. Without the threat of failing to define ourselves before the One who loves us, nothing is impossible. Even impossible things aren't impossible anymore because it's no longer tasked with proving an impossible thing. Jesus redefines us all while redefining all the name Son of Man, establishing everything as universally TRUE of all mankind thereby confirming our inclusion in it apart from works. Just as we inherited our names, nationalities, and species, we inherited the Spirit (first, before all else).
The only thing that made some things hard to do was undo weight attached to the result from having to earn love as a result of it, or prove ourselves by it. "If you're the Son of Man..." isn't the place from which to act, but to silence a nay-sayer and God doesn't act to silence nay-sayers! *though His actions do and HAVE done exactly that, silencing every nay-sayer forever! But not because of their nay-saying, but because He desired to unveil Himself as light overpowering darkness. Even their ignorance of Him as a result of the law was of His design, that He'd by it unveil the majesty of His knowledge of us!
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